We’re closing up the Third Arab Bloggers Meeting and will soon be heading out for a final dinner. I’m just as sad as I am every time, but even sadder this time around because of Syria. While the meeting was dampened by the denial of visas to Palestinian bloggers, it was perhaps even more so […]
Monday, on the first day of the Third Arab Bloggers Meeting, I learned that as many as 12 Palestinian bloggers were denied visas to Tunisia to attend. According to some of the bloggers, the embassies in Ramallah and Cairo (where one blogger was based) claimed that Nawaat is unlicensed (false) and that the conference was […]
Tunisian bloggers & Politics, featuring Riadh Guerfali (@Astrubaal), Amira Yahyaoui (@mira404), Tarek Kahlaoui (@t_kahlaoui), Mehdi Lamloum (@MehdiLamloum) and Slim Amamou (@Slim404), moderated by Malek Khadraoui. The panelists spoke in French and Arabic, so all quotes below are an approximation. Some background: Tunisia is preparing to write its constitution, and both political parties and independent “lists” […]